Coombs has repeatedly criticized the prosecution’s behavior in the Manning trial, urging total dismissal in March because the prosecution had botched so much of the discovery phase that it made conducting a defense virtually impossible. If convicted, Manning would face life in prison.

To silence all would be whistle-blowers and to close down WikiLeaks, this is what the show-trial of Manning is all about, guilty with no means to prove innocence. For an army has but one goal, to deceive, trick and kill, and to assume integrity from the imperial Army of a most brutally imperial Empire, surely all the heavenly realms must be laughing at the stupidity of it.